Author: Arturo Perez-Reverte
Translator: Su-jin Kim
Publisher: Yeollinchaekdeul
Hardcover / 350 pages
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About This Book
Spain's bestselling novelist follows three polished and erudite thrillers (The
Flanders Panel; The Club Dumas; The Seville Communion) with a fourth that
combines the classic art of fencing, 19th-century Spanish monarchical politics
and the eternal lure of the femme fatale.
Don Jaime Astarloa, aging and solitary, is Madrid's greatest fencing master,
eking out a threadbare living in this age of the pistol by teaching the sons of
the nobility. In the hot summer of 1868, while rumors abound in Madrid of
possible insurrection and the forced abdication of Queen Isabelle II, Don Jaime
is visited by a beautiful young woman calling herself Adela de Otero, who offers
him double his usual fee to teach her a secret, famously difficult sword thrust.
At first Don Jaime refuses to consider a woman as a student; but with her
intricate knowledge of fencing and the mysterious, tiny scar at the corner of
her mouth, Adela wins him over and proves to be an expert fencer, gifted,
disciplined and determined. Soon she is winning Don Jaime's heart as well. Thus
is set into motion a complex succession of plots and counterplots analogous to
the thrust and parry of a fencing match.
Perez-Reverte is a master of lushly atmospheric suspense, and his prose is as
spellbinding in the fencing gallery as it is in the arcane realm of honor and
loyalty that shapes Don Jaime's world. The mysteries unravel to the final pages,
as Don Jaime pursues his lifelong dream of discovering "the unstoppable thrust,"
not in politics, contemplation of his art or even romance, but on the floor of
battle. --From Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Arturo Perez-Reverte (Cartagena, Spain, 1951) was a newspaper columnist and
former television journalist for twenty-one years. Now he is fully dedicated to
literature and is considered one of the top-10 international novelists. His
books have been translated into twenty-three languages and published in thirty
countries, selling over two million copies worldwide. Four of his books have
been made into movies.
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